Schools

70 years ago of school integration after Brown v Board

U.S.
Amanda Smith

WASHINGTON (AP) — Seventy years ago this week, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled separating children in schools by race was unconstitutional. On ...

Protests dwindle but college graduations are marked by defiant acts

U.S.
Amanda Smith

A tiny contingent of Duke University graduates opposed pro-Israel comedian Jerry Seinfeld speaking at their commencement in North Carolina Sunday, with about ...

College protests: Columbia University cancels main commencement

U.S.
Amanda Smith

NEW YORK (AP) — Columbia University canceled its large university-wide commencement ceremony Monday following weeks of pro-Palestinian protests that have roiled its ...

Pro-Palestinian protests sweep US colleges following arrests at Columbia

U.S.
Amanda Smith

NEW YORK (AP) — Columbia canceled in-person classes, dozens of protesters were arrested at New York University and Yale, and the gates ...

Student recounts watching girl, 13, brutally bash classmate in head with Stanley cup during unprovoked attack: ‘Blood everywhere’

U.S.
Amanda Smith

US News By Isabel Keane Published April 21, 2024, 9:20 a.m. ET Parents and students said that they complained to their guidance ...

Books most targeted in 2023 contained LGBTQ themes: ALA

U.S.
Amanda Smith

Pink gives out 2,000 banned books at Florida concerts Pink partnered with PEN America and a Florida bookseller to give away 2,000 ...

Solar eclipse could damage students eyes as they’re released from class: parents

Science
Dr. Sarah Adams

Metro By Georgett Roberts and Natalie O’Neill Published April 4, 2024, 1:43 p.m. ET They’ll be be reading, writing and retina-burning! Parents ...

Gunmen kidnap 15 children while they slept in Nigeria school abduction

World
David Turner

Armed men broke into a boarding school in northwestern Nigeria early Saturday and seized 15 children as they slept, police told The ...

Alabama schools shut down after 1,200 kids contract gastrointestinal virus

Health
Rachel Carter

US News By Katherine Donlevy Published Feb. 29, 2024, 8:46 p.m. ET More than 1,200 students were absent Wednesday after a highly ...

A shooting at a high school in Perry, Iowa, has been reported. Follow the latest

U.S.
Amanda Smith

PERRY, Iowa (AP) — Police in Perry, Iowa, say there was a shooting Thursday at the city’s high school. A woman who ...